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FRAME|WORK: An imperial tea service by Peter Carl Fabergé

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on June 15, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. This week, we feature an exquisite tea service from Russia made by Peter Carl Fabergé currently on view at the Legion of Honor.

Peter Carl Fabergè (Russian, 1846–1920). Julius Alexandrovitch Rappoport (workmaster). Tea Service with Tea Table, 1896–1908. Silvergilt, Karelian birch, ivory. Gift of Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess Kyrill of Russia, through Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. 1945.355-357.

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